Tuesday, June 16, 2015

What's the point of view in "The Story of an Hour?"

The point of view in this short story is probably best described as that of a limited third person narrator.


The story is not told from the point of view of any of the characters.  We are not seeing the story through Mrs. Mallard's eyes or those of her sister or any one else's eyes.  Instead, we are outside of the action looking in.


We can say the narrator is limited because he or she can know what the people are thinking, but not all the time.  The narrator is not just telling us what happened, he or she is also telling us what Louise is thinking.  But we don't really know what anyone else is thinking.

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